cage
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noun- 1.
An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
We keep a bird in a cage.
The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.
- 2.
The passenger compartment of a lift.
- 3.
(field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
- 4.
(abbreviation, alt of)Short for roll cage, a protective structure around the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- 5.
(US, broadly, slang)(by extension, US, slang) Synonym of automobile.
Đồng nghĩa: automobile
- 6.
(figuratively)Something that hinders freedom.
- 7.
(slang)A prison or prison cell.
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(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- 9.
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- 10.
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- 11.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- 12.
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- 2.
(slang, transitive)To imprison.
The serial killer was caged for life.
- 3.
(figuratively, transitive)To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- 4.
(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.
- 5.
To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
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From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. cadge cavea and related to jail.